Udo Albrecht

Udo Albrecht (born 13 April 1940^[1] in Beyrode, Germany, likely died in 2019)^[2] was a far right extremist with a long history of criminal activity dating back to the 1950s including prison escapes, bank robberies, counterfeiting and offences related to explosives and weapons sales.^[3]

Albrecht was born in East Germany. He joined the Freikorps Adolf Hitler in 1967.^[4] He cultivated close ties with the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1970s. When the PLO fought Jordanian forces, Albrecht and other neo-Nazis fought alongside the Fedayeen.^[5] For this, he was arrested by the Jordanian army. Because of these close ties, during a hostage taking by Black September at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, the group demanded Albrecht's release. After his release, he was arrested again in Vienna in 1971.^[3] He was arrested again in Germany in 1976 and was held in a prison in Bonn in solitary confinement on charges of membership in a criminal organization and illegal possession of weapons.^[4] He fled to Lebanon in 1981, where he was again arrested.^[3]